Compelling Evidence That the Previous Administration Committed War Crimes.

[rucky]

Comes out as a new Administration comes in.

Now what is SUPPOSED to happen, according to our laws or international law? Who investigates these things? Who prosecutes them? What's the due process?

Please explain this to me as if I just stepped off the little bus, because I think our opinions here may be based on some false assumptions. Just the facts will be fine. Thanks.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Who said that it was the president's job to determine whether or

not warcrimes should go unpunished?? Seems to me the judicial branch should grow a set and do what needs doing.

[EFerrari]

2. Because the Justice Department is part of the Executive

and they would be the moving party, not the SC?

But I agree with you that there's no way this responsibility should be put solely on Obama's plate. Where is our dysfunctional Congress?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Ooooh.... they spied on everybody, who knows what they could

release about this one or that one. Country and accountability first, worry about the unimportant things later.

[JDPriestly]

4. No, it's the Justice Department which is administered as part of the executive

but is somewhat independent. In a situation like this in which any decision Obama or his Justice Department make will be viewed as political by one side or another, Obama should appoint an independent prosecutor, someone who does not answer to him and who is viewed by both sides as honest and trustworthy, to determine whether there are sufficient facts to indict anyone.

That is how this should be handled, in my opinion. The independent prosecutor would take the matter to a grand jury if need be. Remember the Plame matter? Remember Fitzgerald?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Let the people with prior experience in these matters handle it, send

'em to Europe. You won't get much more independent than that.

[rucky]

6. kick for clarity